thirty-hour clock;
timepiece
- Museum number
- 2012,8028.146
- Description
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Timepiece mantel clock with a round silvered dial, square chrome plated bezel forming the case, on a wooden stand.
Rear wound 30hr movement with skeletonised plates.
- Production date
- 1950-59
- Dimensions
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Height: 187 millimetres
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Width: 388 millimetres
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Depth: 100 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This clock has the same type of movement as 2012,8028.118, but that movement is stamped by Newport, and the movement in this one is unmarked. The dial on this clock is marked Newport, but does not have the hourglass logo.
See 'Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century : the industrialized manufacture of domestic mechanical clocks' by John Glanville and William M. Wolmuth, Crowood Press , 2015 p343-5
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Latest: 4 (sep 2016) corrosion on hands. Movement dirty. Dial dirty.
On acquisition: One securing screw (of three) missing from back of clock. Winding knob missing. Hands corroded
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- Acquisition notes
- This clock is part of the Glanville and Wolmuth Collection, a comprehensive collection of twentieth century domestic mechanical factory-made clocks made in England and Wales.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2012,8028.146
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 233 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)